“My creative process is fluid and organic. If I am carving stone, it starts with the choice of the raw stone and from there I simplify and if it’s too ‘simple’ I complicate. It’s a very hard thing to articulate as my carving process is more like an inner conversation, between me and the stone where we both speak to each other, listen, and adjust as required…”

One of Tom Bass Sculpture School's eminent teachers, Karen Alexander talks us through the creation of a recent commission, Spirit Girl…

The North Sydney Art Prize is a major biennial arts event showcasing some of the best in contemporary art from across Australia. This year’s exhibition features over 110 artworks to be displayed across the grounds of the historic Coal Loader site.

Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama is responsible for some of the most iconic works of sculpture in the world. Throughout Kusama’s prolific career her favourite motifs of pumpkins, polka dots and nets formed of infinitely repeating loops have taken the shape of room-filling installations, performance pieces, painting, poetry and large and small sculpture.

“The sculptures include abstract, figurative, representational and hyper-realistic works using a wide variety of materials such as steel, wood, stone, bronze, fibreglass and woven fibres…”

“I need to make things. The physical interaction with the medium has a curative effect. I need the physical acting out. I need to have these objects exist in relation to my body...”

“At the beginning of 2020 I started to develop a new body of work considering eco-anxiety. However, emerging from a smoke-choked, apocalyptic summer and tumbling straight into the unpredictability of the global pandemic, what evolved was The State of Things: an amalgamation of the chaos that 2020 had to offer…”

“I see clay as a social media with its long history in human culture and its universal familiarity. It provides me with infinite possibilities of form and a surface on which to scratch, write and paint…”

“I work across assemblage, installation, collage, printmaking and photography. Most of my sculptures are assemblages, 3D and 2D pieces created from discarded and unwanted toys…”

“A woven mesh not unlike medieval mail. A continuous piece of wire, forms envelop inner forms, yet all forms are visible (transparent). The shadow will reveal an exact image of the object.”

The first dedicated retrospective of one of the most important and dynamic, yet underrated, Australian sculptors of the 20th century.

Summer in Australia is not only marked by holidays, beach days and swimming, cold drinks and BBQs, it’s also a time to visit some blockbuster exhibitions!

I was fascinated by how a sculpture could stop me in my tracks and make me physically move around it whilst the surroundings faded into the background…

The undersea world of coral reefs is more magical, wondrous, complex, and spectacular than our collective imaginations at their very hallucinogenic, kaleidoscopic best…

This podcast is presented by art historian and curator, Katy Hessel. Katy interviews artists on their career, or curators, writers, or general art lovers, on the female artist who means the most to them…

“I make sculptures by means of crocheting and knitting. When I made my first crocheted artwork, I didn't have any earlier background in yarn-based handcrafts…”

“In 2015 I took a life gamble and applied to the Florence Academy of Art. I was accepted so I moved to Florence, Italy to start learning how to sculpt the figure…”

“I like to think of Margel Hinder as Australia’s answer to Barbara Hepworth…”

Abandoned and collected objects are combined with felt, beeswax, honey and lead in Larkin’s artworks offering themselves up as intimate poetry of love, longing and loss…

“During lockdown I made a very tongue-in-cheek sculpture about the different ways my husband and I were dealing with being stuck in the house…”